selam alejkum

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سلام علیکم (selam aleykum), from Arabic اَلسَّلَام عَلَيْكُم (as-salām ʕalaykum, “peace be upon you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈlam alɛjˈkum/

Interjection

selam alejkum

1. (Islam) salaam alaikum (Muslim greeting)

References

• Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 139, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سلام علیکم (selam aleykum), from Arabic اَلسَّلَام عَلَيْكُم (as-salām ʕalaykum, “peace be upon you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈlam alɛjˈkum/

Interjection

selam alejkum (Cyrillic spelling селам алејкум)

1. (Islam) salaam alaikum (Muslim greeting)